[lace-chat] Humour
>A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in >their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for >him. >She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of >coffee in >front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the >wall. She watches as he wiped a tear from his eye and takes a sip >of his >coffee. > >"What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room, >"Why are you down here at this time of night?" > >The husband looks up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago >when we were dating, and you were only 16?" he asks solemnly. The >wife >is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and >sensitive. "Yes I do," she replies. > >The husband paused. The words were not coming easily. "Do you >remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car >making >love?" > >"Yes, I remember," said the wife, lowering herself into a chair >beside him. The husband continued. "Do you remember when he shoved >the >shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I >will >send you to jail for 20 years?'" > >"I remember that too" she replied softly. > >He wiped another tear from his cheek and said... "I would have >gotten out >today. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Speed on motorways
On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:28:11 +0100, Jean wrote: >Janice wrote: > >exceeded 80kilometers (50mph) even though the M25 was not for once >congested! I could see his speed guage from my front seat. > > >The speed limit for the bus would depend on its length and the >weather/traffic conditions. The Department for Transport rules are: > >"4. Watch your speed > > a.. The speed limit for cars, motorbikes, light goods vehicles and buses >and coaches less than 12m long on motorways is 70mph; > b.. The speed limit for vehicles towing a caravan or trailer, HGVs, >articulated lorries and buses or coaches over 12m long on motorways is >60mph. >Signs with yellow flashing lights are used to show lower speed limits when >you need to slow down in poor weather conditions, when traffic is heavy or >there has been an accident." > >Large vehicles have a speed limiter fitted so they can't exceed the speed >it's set for. here's talk of altering the speed limits down to 50 mph in the >inside lane for large vehicles and increasing it to 80 mph for cars (instead >of the 70 it is now) when there's little traffic, but I think that's just >being talked about at the moment. Also the M25 has variable speed limits according to the lit signs, not a blanket 70mph limit like other UK motorways. Research has shown that limiting all traffic to 50 mph keeps it flowing more freely than higher limits, where any slight problem starts up bunching. A bunching effect that gets started in heavy traffic can persist for the entire day, until traffic levels reduce at night. The M25 around Heathrow is one of the busiest parts; I've been told that 50 limits there are quite normal. -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Scams
One of DH's "women" in the US was desparate for a job and couldn't find one due to her age. She saw an advert somewhere or got an email - I don't know the details - but she thought she was acting as a collecting agent for a company in France. She was sent a cheque, paid it into her bank account, drew the money in cash, less 10% handing fee which was her commission, and forwarded the cash by Western Union to an address in Scotland. Don't know why she didn't have alarm bells ringing at least with the such a roundabout route being involved, let alone anything else. Anyway, the cheque she deposited for over $2,000 bounced - why did the bank let her have the cash before the cheque had cleared? She got left with an overdraft of $2,300 and no way of paying it back out of her Social Security cheque. She was suicidal because the bank said they'd take the whole of her cheque every monmth, meaning she had no money for food, rent or anything else, but it's turned out OK. After the bank first not wanting to know anything about heping her, the FBI and police have been involved in trying to track the source of the scam as she wasn't the on;ly one who fell for it - not that there's anything they can do about it because it came from outside the US - and the bank have put the overdraft in a separate account. Her Social Seciruty is being paid directly into another account and the bank is taking $10 a month to pay the overdraft off and not charging interest - she's really grateful for that. There are some very nasty people about. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] bank transfer scam
Hi, I just received a couple copies of a Scam Email from the "Auditor of the Bank of Scotland, United Kingdom". He wants my bank account to transfer 15 million pounds of excess money out of Scotland, then pick it up from me -- for a share, of course. I had heard of these scams coming from Africa, but not using Scotland. So -- beware. It's hard to believe people will actually fall for this old scam but I guess it only takes one reply for the scammer to wipe out a bank account. The email address for replying was coded Denmark, but in the expanded header, the actual sending address was Italy. I don't know how to read the rest of the information in the header. And I don't know where to send a copy of this for the email police. Does anyone know? Is this a case where the webmaster of that email would be contacted? I have sent fake eBay and Paypal emails to the appropriate spoof center, but I don't know what to do with international scams. Now I'll take a bookmark off the pillow, and decide what to start next. I want to use up some of the excess wound thread left from my fan. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where rain is off and on all week. The rhodies are in bloom. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Eden retreat - trip home
Got to share this with everyone. Spent a marvellous time on the far south coast of NSW this weekend at a lace retreat. It happens the weekend after Mothers Day each year, and has been a regular event for many years. Lacemakers from all over NSW and Victoria attend. We met up with Pene Piip's mother Marion from Narooma for the weekend, shared our motel rooms with her. About to drive home, she said she had been told of a Bead Gallery near Pambula, and as she had the instructions to get there, we could follow. We'd just see if it was open Sunday afternoons. About half a K down a dirt track off the main highway, we found this shed like place called "Bead Gallery and Angel Junk". There was a car there, but no-one in sight. We walked in, to be confronted with a wall of packets of beads, bowls of them, workshop table full of them, and lots of other "Angel junk" - angels, figurines, hard to describe. Just lots of "stuff". We browsed for about 10 minutes before someone came. She said she had been recovering from a market she had done that morning. Her name is "Spider" (true, it's on her card!) which was funny enough. She talks to angels, she says - like, watch out if you ask St Michael for something, you're likely to get it but you have to clean up the mess aftwards! We all bought beads, and when we'd finished, she disappeared and came back with a gift each which just suited us - she seemed to be able to sum us up so well - mine was an enamelled jointed Chinese fish. On the way out, there was a chair beside the door with two old dolls in a very bad state - soot stained clothes, singed hair, very sad. Apparently, someone close to her had had their house burned down (could have been her daughter, didn't quite get all the conversation, I was putting stuff in the car) but these dolls had been rescued and were sitting in the chair "Until God sends someone to fix them." These were her actual words, I heard them clearly. This brought me to an abrupt halt. My friend Marion is a porcelain doll expert, a kind and generous person, and very much into her church in Narooma. Needless to say Marion took the two porcelain dolls, another smaller doll and the poor sooty teddy bear. We cradled them like children to her car, and made them all comfortable in a special box. "Spider" was so very happy, but not surprised at all, as if she knew quite well that Marion had been sent to take care of them!. Quite an ending to our weekend! Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] transportation woes
Dear Janice, I am sorry you had such a bad time in my native town! I hope the breakfast at least was nice and you didn't get that dreadful bread we ate last time we were ther4e!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, originally from Toulouse, France. Janice wrote: >We stayed in Tolouse overnight on Friday as our flight left the airport at 6:30 am which meant we had to be up around 4 am to get the bus. I pursuaded DH a taxi would be a better idea as it was dark and raining, instead of dragging our cases half a mile down the road to the bus station. That worked out well and only cost 26 euro. When we checked in and went through security it took an extra long time as they were frisking every other person and searching every other carry on bag. We waited at the gate until well past our flight time then a BA rep came out and said there was a problem with the security machine and they were having to check every suitcase manually, but the electronic sign said there was a labor dispute! After sitting on the plane for over an hour, during which time they thankfully gave us the breakfast snack that we would have had enroute, the pilot announced we were taking off without all the luggage as the gate was needed for an incoming plane. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
